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Instructors: Dr. Patrick Gill
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.522
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: ELC 522
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
ELC 522: Omission as Aesthetic Principle
From Wolfgang Iser's interpretive gaps to conspicuous absences in modern drama, all the way to the ending of The Sopranos, this class is interested in the aesthetics of omission, of what is not said.
This can include the related but obviously not interchangeable phenomena of allusion, substitution, suggestiveness and indirection. Theoretical approaches to the poetics of omission will draw on reader response theory, cognitive theory, and ideas of representation and the limits of representation found in an array of genres and writers from various periods. While the class is designed to discuss phenomena in abstract terms so that they can then be transferred onto texts of your choice in your essays, for sheer economy, the majority of our examples in class will probably be taken from poems and short stories.
A reader with shorter texts and list of longer texts will be made available nearer the start of the semester, and students will be asked to read a number of texts/possibly watch some film/TV in preparation of this class.
Contents:
ELC 522: Omission as Aesthetic Principle
From Wolfgang Iser's interpretive gaps to conspicuous absences in modern drama, all the way to the ending of The Sopranos, this class is interested in the aesthetics of omission, of what is not said.
This can include the related but obviously not interchangeable phenomena of allusion, substitution, suggestiveness and indirection. Theoretical approaches to the poetics of omission will draw on reader response theory, cognitive theory, and ideas of representation and the limits of representation found in an array of genres and writers from various periods. While the class is designed to discuss phenomena in abstract terms so that they can then be transferred onto texts of your choice in your essays, for sheer economy, the majority of our examples in class will probably be taken from poems and short stories.
A reader with shorter texts and list of longer texts will be made available nearer the start of the semester, and students will be asked to read a number of texts/possibly watch some film/TV in preparation of this class.
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